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Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
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circa 1894
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3 Copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.R97-19
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs probably depicting Kwakiutl Indians, including a man in a blanket, a man wearing a bird mask and cedarbark dress, and a woman holding up a cradle or load.
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Ethnogeographic Board (Washington, D. C.)
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1942-1946
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16.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (29 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 87
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection includes records concerning the Board's projects, general correspondence, committee and organization work and information concerning specialized data and special subjects. Postwar regional administration records, geographic reports, country information files, photographs and uncompleted project records are also included, a...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1827-1986; undated
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66 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S09
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 9: Domestic and Community Life documents family, love, marriage, home, and social organizations. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Adams, Joe, 1922-
Morehead, Howard, 1926-2003
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1948-1980
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0908
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting the career of Joe Adams, a Los Angeles radio announcer and movie and television actor, who later became Ray Charles's manager.
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Benn, Ben, 1884-
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1905-1993
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6.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bennben
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Archives of American Art
The papers of modernist painter Ben Benn measure 6.3 linear feet and date from 1906 through 1977, with the bulk of the papers dating from circa 1920 - circa 1970. The collection includes correspondence between Benn and his wife Velida Benn and letters from Oscar Bluemner, Max Weber, Joseph Stella, and other artists. Also found are sketches, sketchbooks, diaries, scrapbooks, personal business records, clippings, photographs, exhibition catalogs, art journals, and auction catalogs. Some of the printed material is quite rare.
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Schoewe, Charles G.
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circa 1875-1895
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2 Tintypes (prints)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.406
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection consists of 2 tintypes collected by Charles G. Schoewe that depict Potawatomi men from Wisconsin.
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undated
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1 Stereograph (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.89-27
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photograph depicting a Native American man pulling his bow back, positioned to shoot an arrow. The image was possibly made by Gaylord & Thompson, Duluth, Minnesota.
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Jones, J. H. (Joseph Hardy), 1919-
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1950
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272 Items (viii + + 1 pages viii + 272 + 1 pages)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7491
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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1950-1960
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47 prints (visual works) ((1 box), black & white, 11 x 14 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-002
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The photographs document a variety of art works created by Africans. Objects depicted include boxes, bracelets, figures, gold weights, headrests, heads, masks, pendants, stools, and trumpets. Peoples and kingdoms represented include Anyi, Asante, Bamum, Bangwa, Baule, Benin, Chokwe, Fang (Pahouin), Fon, Ife, Lega, Luba, Mende, Nok, Pende and Yoruba. Princeton University staff assembled the collection to illustrate the publications entitled, African Folktales & Sculpture, ed. by Paul Radin (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952). Photographers represented include Ina Bundy, Eliot Elisofon, Walker Evans and Man Ray.
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Mr. Wizard Studios (Firm)
Herbert, Don (Donald Jeffry), 1917-2007
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1906-2008
bulk 1951-1995
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26 Cubic feet (57 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1326
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents, through printed materials, photographs, audio and moving image, Don Herbert's career as a science educator under the persona of "Mr. Wizard" from 1951 until the 1990s.